Back to the Republic of China as a commander

Zhang Jinghui was a well-known good man, and his division commander wanted to pick someone up. He didn't want to punish these brave guys who delayed the military plane, but sent a telegram to Beijing to urge supplies.

As for Beijing, Zhang Zuolin was also overwhelmed by various requests for supplies.As far as this war is concerned, Zhang Zuolin is the least prepared.In the past two years of fiscal deficit, it is good to be able to maintain the army, and it is impossible to hoard supplies.Finally, in the middle of the year, they obtained a large amount of military supplies from the Japanese, and reluctantly launched the Shanxi campaign. As a result, they did not expect Sun Liechen and Zhang Jinghui to be so prodigal, and they took out most of them before they reached Taiyuan.It is not easy to think about the Japanese, after all, Japan will now fight against the youth army in Shandong.But even so, the Japanese side squeezed out some of the military supplies originally planned to be shipped to Shandong from Tianjin to the Fengjun to support their military operations in Shanxi.

These materials were temporarily shipped to Tianjin because the warehouses in Qingdao Port and Weihaiwei were full. Zhang Jinghui and his five divisions had already obtained these materials on November [-]st, and this was still at the fastest speed. sent up. . .

Chapter 452 Bloody Battle in Shanxi ([-])

If life can be chosen again, Wan Fulin will definitely not grab the main attack task again. Due to the poor performance of the Jin army before, the mentality of the Feng army has become very relaxed when they hit Shuozhou.Shanxi people?Babes who can be defeated with a single charge with a bayonet in hand.Dominated by such a mentality, they naturally turned a deaf ear to the warnings given by the Japanese advisers accompanying the army.The Japanese advisers didn't know how powerful Fu Zuoyi was. They simply observed the Jin army's position and found that the Jin army's position was very powerful this time. If the Feng army didn't pay attention, it might suffer a big loss.Although the more Chinese people died, the better, but out of a professional attitude, these Japanese still issued a warning to Zhang Jinghui responsibly.

It's a pity that Zhang Jinghui's ability to become the commander-in-chief of the Fengjun along the way did not depend on his half-baked military ability at all, but on the relationship and trust with Zhang Zuolin.So the warning from the Japanese adviser was like farting in front of him, and it had no effect.

Wan Fulin now regards himself as the number one tiger general in the Feng army, and he doesn't pay much attention to Zhang Zongchang of the Zhilu coalition army.It wasn't all arrogance. In this crusade against Shanxi, he used almost one division to clear the way for the whole army, defeating the three Jin army divisions under Shang Zhen's command.He is naturally the main force in this fight against Shuozhou.People are also thinking now, waiting for the Jin army to be wiped out this time, and they will go to Beijing to find Marshal Zhang, and just set up a direct-Jin coalition army in Shanxi to become the local emperor.

The ideal is full, but the reality is very backbone. When Wan Fulin ordered the attack, he realized that something was wrong.

The first mistake was manifested in the fighting spirit of the Jin army. Wan Fulin followed the old method and organized a death squad of 500 people to lead the whole division.According to past performance, once the Jin army could not survive the attack of this death squad, it would consciously collapse across the board.But this time it's weird. Facing the impact of this death squad, the Jin army has no sign of breaking down.The battle was very fierce. On the one hand, the Feng army fought resolutely, making repeated attacks in many areas.But on the other hand, the Jin army also played with unprecedented enthusiasm, almost desperately driving the Feng army down in these areas.More than half of the death squads failed to achieve a breakthrough, and Wan Fulin immediately discovered that the Jin army on the opposite side was not easy.

The second error occurred after Wan Fulin issued the general attack order.Although he failed to achieve a breakthrough, Wan Fulin didn't take it seriously, and issued a general offensive order as usual, and tens of thousands of Fengjun pressed towards the Jin army's position.The Jin army immediately showed their powerful firepower configuration, and pieces of the Feng army were swept to the ground by heavy machine guns and mountain artillery.The most important thing is not the firepower. With such a large investment of troops, no matter how fierce the Jin army's firepower is, it is not difficult to achieve a breakthrough.The key point is that Wan Fulin found that the depth of the Jin army's position was very strange. The Feng army that broke through the Jin army's defense line was quickly attacked from front, back, left, and right, and the entire Feng army immediately became chaotic.At this time, the shortcomings of the lack of personal quality of the Fengjun officers were exposed. Faced with the changes in the defense depth of the Jin army, these officers could not think of a way to deal with them, but blindly ordered the soldiers to charge.As a result, the entire Feng army was foolishly exposed to the open area, and suffered heavy casualties under the firepower of the Jin army.

No matter how stupid Wan Fulin was, he could see that this position was built professionally, and his own tactics of relying on crowds obviously wouldn't work.He immediately issued an order to retreat. As a result, after the first wave of attacks was counted by various ministries, the number of Fengjun's deaths reached an astonishing 100 people, and several were injured.Such a huge casualty dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the Feng army, and only then did Wan Fulin realize the seriousness of the problem. . .Fengjun's uncles are different from other troops. These grandsons have never paid attention to their leaders. Once the oppression is too severe and their emotions fluctuate, this group of people will really launch a mutiny. Let you take a good look.

Therefore, Wan Fulin, who is very pragmatic, ordered the officers and soldiers to withdraw without hesitation. After all, it is better to take a long-term perspective in life.But what he didn't know was that it was precisely because of his retreat order that Fu Zuoyi's Jin army was greatly encouraged.If it is said that the Jin army had already been beaten and had no morale, then after successfully repelling the attack of the Feng army, the morale of the Jin army began to recover. They began to believe the words of the young commander-in-chief Fu Zuoyi that the Feng army was not impossible. win.

At the moment when Feng's army was defeated, they ignored the discipline on the battlefield, and shouted wildly to the sky, celebrating their long-awaited victory that finally came.And Fu Zuoyi also breathed a long sigh of relief because of this, although he has always been confident in the Jin army, this is actually the first time he has commanded such a large-scale military operation.In the past, his military exploits were mostly from low-level battles like suppressing bandits. There is no way, the Jin army has hardly organized foreign military expansion operations in recent years. Even if Fu Zuoyi is appreciated by Yan Xishan, he has no chance to show off on the stage. own talent.

The successful repulsion of the Fengjun's offensive undoubtedly gave Fu Zuoyi a shot in the arm. Next, he planned to do a big job.

It was also almost from this day that Yan Xishan, who was in Taiyuan, suddenly discovered that the news from the front line was no longer bad news, and victories began to come continuously. . .

In the next three days, Zhang Jinghui, the commander-in-chief of the Fengjun Right Army, immediately showed something different from Sun Liechen on the left.As Zhang Zuolin's brother, he didn't care much about the loss of his own strength.Under his urging and the temptation of his interests, several division commanders under him finally organized their troops to find Fu Zuoyi for their lives.

The Jin army was under unprecedented pressure. The Feng army was not stupid this time. They pushed up the cannons given to them by the Japanese, and then the hired Japanese artillery fired the cannons, bombarding the Jin army's position indiscriminately.Immediately afterwards, Fengjun officers and soldiers with big ear caps rushed forward with bayonets in their hands. I really don't know how the Japanese instructors in their team taught them, and why Fengjun is still at such a technical and tactical level after so long.

In fact, there is some misunderstanding here. Zhang Zuolin really hoped to equip the grassroots units with Japanese instructors.But his team expanded too fast, and the number of Japanese instructors was insufficient. Naturally, Zhang Zuolin's own direct descendants and Zhang Zongchang's Zhilu allied forces could be satisfied, and the number of Japanese instructors that could be equipped by other troops was very small. Poor.

Many disadvantages were revealed at this time, the first of which was the shortage of officers.In fact, officers are often technical occupations, not official hats. Their professionalism often directly determines the combat effectiveness of the entire army.The reason why the combat effectiveness of the Italian army in history is so poor, in the final analysis, is that there is a problem with their officer team. The lack of professional basic officers is really great.Fengjun also had this problem. The team expanded too fast, and there were not so many professionally trained officers to fill the vacancies.Many of the guys who served as officers in the Fengjun were simply ignorant. These people were appointed as officers for various reasons, but none of these reasons had much to do with professional military quality.So at this time, don't be so surprised to see Feng Jun's chaos, it really is a raging army, a raging nest.

So although it was tight, the Jin army was very successful in repelling the offensive for three consecutive days.At the most exaggerated moment, Feng Jun once broke through the defense line, but Fu Zuoyi signed and led the guards to push up, forcing Feng Jun to repel. . .

And in Taiyuan, Shanxi, the headquarters of the Jin Army.

"Baichuan, this is the battle report that just arrived today." Yan Xishan's number one military adviser, Chief of Staff Zhao Daiwen walked in with a smile on his face: "Fu Yisheng is indeed a rare general! For three consecutive days, the Feng army failed to break through me. The defense line of the army. Now Xu Yongchang's offensive on Fengjun's side has also weakened a lot, and it seems that Sun Liechen is still planning to sit on the sidelines and wait and see in order to preserve his strength."

Yan Xishan hurriedly got up and rubbed his hands excitedly: "Okay, okay, who said that we Shanxi people can't fight, the key is to see who takes the soldier. Fu Yisheng is indeed a general, and Chu Xiongfei from Xu Yongchang's side , It's a pity that we found out too late, otherwise we would have found these two people earlier, and we would not have developed to the current situation."

Hearing Yan Xishan's last sigh, Zhao Daiwen couldn't help but sighed and said: "Everything has its own destiny, so don't worry about Baichuan. By the way, what does Mr. Changqing say now?"

Yan Xishan glanced at Zhao Daiwen: "What else can I say, I admire this man's demeanor, he is not slow, no matter how our Jin army fights, he never mentioned a word to let the young army enter Jin. The more he behaves like this, the more hesitant I become! Brother Zhao, tell me, can we hold Shanxi alone?"

Zhao Daiwen thought for a while and was about to speak, when suddenly the staff officer came in and reported: "Report to the warlord, Chief of Staff Zhao, Mr. Yang, the guest of the VIP building, has urgent matters to see."

Yan Xishan hurriedly said: "Mr. Yang is here, a rare visitor, please hurry up."

When Yang Yongtai walked in with a solemn expression, Yan Xishan couldn't help but was startled: "Mr. Changqing, what happened, why do you have such an expression?"

Yang Yongtai glanced at the famous slicker in front of him, shook his head and said, "General Baichuan, I'm here to tell you some bad news. Since your army severely injured Feng's army in Shuozhou, so Beijing's Zhang Zuolin The order is to let Zhang Zongchang, the allied army of Zhishan, enter Jin. General Baichuan, this time is very tricky!"

Naturally, there was the sound of teacups being broken. Yan Xishan lost his composure in front of Yang Yongtai for the first time, and he was speechless.

It was hard to maintain the situation, but this news broke it all at once, how can you keep him from being shocked, I will die!

Chapter 453

Zhang Zongchang's entry into the Jin Dynasty was actually just Zhang Zuolin's idea, but if it spread to the exhausted Yan Xishan's ears, it would really kill you while you were sick.

In fact, as long as Yan Xishan has a little strategic vision, he will know that it is impossible for Zhang Zuolin to transfer troops into Jin Dynasty to fight at this time.Even if he could ignore the fact that logistics and supplies were difficult, he would not be able to drop Zhang Zongchang's army into Jin.

Because the war in the Shandong area has entered the outbreak stage at this time, Zhang Zongchang, as the most important pawn in Zhang Zuolin's hands, will not be easily mobilized, and it is even more impossible to use it in other battlefields.To put it simply, unless Zhang Zuolin became insane, he would never have fought on the Shanxi battlefield with the Zhi-Shandong coalition forces on the edge of Shandong.

It is also sad to say that the Shanxi battlefield, which determines the life and death of Yan Xishan and the real Jin army, is a dispensable abandonment for both the North and the South.The battlefield that truly determines China's future destiny was doomed from the very beginning of the entire war, and it could only be in Shandong, and it could only be a duel between Wang Zhenyu and the Japanese.

If China at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China is compared to the arcade games of later generations, then the challenger Wang Zhenyu encountered before, including Yuan Shikai, all the enemies, big and small, can only be regarded as small ones, and Japan is the biggest boss of this level .For Wang Zhenyu, defeating Japan can be regarded as a customs clearance.

At the moment, Wang Zhenyu is sitting behind the desk in Wenlu's study in East Lake, Wuhan. Unlike the military meeting held in the Standing Committee Building in Tianyuan Place in the past, Wang Zhenyu is sitting very lazy at the moment, leaning his neck on the back of the chair and looking at the ceiling.Sitting on the sofa in front of the desk were several core figures of the Youth Army, Wan Yaohuang, Xu Yuanquan, and Li Zongren.If these three people add Bai Chongxi and Jiang Fangzhen, they will be the five tiger generals under the command of the famous Wang Zhenyu.

With the development of the youth army, rankings such as the Five Tiger Generals, the Eight King Kongs, and the Thirteen Taibaos have also been released.On the one hand, this indicates that the Youth Army has gradually stabilized as a team, and on the other hand, it also shows that the Youth Army has begun to talk about seniority rankings as a team.

The five generals are naturally: Wan Yaohuang, Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi, Xu Yuanquan, Ma Xicheng.

The Eight Great Vajras refer to: Yang Wangui, Jiang Fangzhen, Tao Zhiyue, Wu Peifu, Xu Shuzheng, Liu Xing, Lu Diping, Zhao Dongsheng.

The Thirteen Taibao refers to: Zhang Zizhong, Xia Wei, Xue Yue, Li Pinxian, Liao Lei, He Yingqin, Zhu Peide, Liu Mingzhao, Fan Shisheng, Ye Kaixin, Gu Zhenglun, Song Haomin, Liu Zhenhuan.

Although Wan Yaohuang and Xu Yuanquan are both from Hubei, their relationship with each other is not harmonious, but this is also the reason why Wang Zhenyu allows two Hubei people to exist at the same time at the top.

Therefore, when Xu Yuanquan advocated an immediate attack on the Japanese army and concentrated superior forces to annihilate the aggressive Honzhuang Fan Division, Wan Yaohuang unceremoniously raised objections.

"I ask Mr. Xu to pay attention to one thing, that is, our army may have the ability to defeat the Japanese army in a field battle, but what is the strategic purpose of our Shandong battle this time? We want to use the Shandong battle to defeat Japanese imperialism and deter them. The other powers finally cleared the way for the unification of the country and the nation. So in order to achieve this goal, we should not care about the gains and losses of a city or a place, let alone be satisfied with how many enemy troops were killed? With the current mobilization capabilities of the Japanese army, we Annihilating a division of the Japanese army is likely to cause more Japanese divisions to be sent to Shandong. Therefore, what we should do is to use a decisive battle to wipe out the Japanese army before the Japanese army recovers, and then Recover Shandong and complete the unification of the country before the Japanese army recovers."

Li Zongren agreed very much: "I also agree with Chief of Staff Wan's opinion. I also got a data from Ma Xicheng. At present, in terms of industrial output value and production capacity, the output of factories under the jurisdiction of our national government alone exceeds In addition, we have another advantage. This time, Japan sent troops to Russia's Siberia while sending troops to Shandong. In other words, we are hitting people with all our strength, while Japan can only use one hand. Support, judging from their current deployment, their understanding of us is seriously insufficient, otherwise they would not have made such an arrogant strategic layout..."

While Wang Zhenyu was listening, his secretary Chen Bulei opened the door and said, "Report to Chairman, Shanxi sent an urgent message that Yan Xishan, the governor of Shanxi, announced that he would accept the leadership of the Nationalist Government and change his flag. At the same time, I urge the young army to enter Jin to resist the Feng army..."

Wang Zhenyu smiled and said to the four who had stopped arguing: "It seems that Yan Baichuan scared Zhang Zuolin, and he has decided to end the dangerous life of dancing on eggs. In this way, let Cheng Qian and the others enter Jin, and send Zhang Zuolin Notice to let them quit Shanxi, otherwise they will bear the consequences."

"Wait, Secretary Chen" was suddenly stopped by Wang Zhenyu when Chen Bulei was about to turn around to deliver the order: "Go and ask Minister Zhou Lanzhou to come over, why is there still no news from Russia? It's already November. If there is no news, it will be too late..."

No one here could understand what Wang Zhenyu meant when he said it was too late, but Dian Ao could feel what Wang Zhenyu meant when he was thousands of kilometers away in Russia.

Damn Siberia is so cold that I don't know what words to use to describe it.At this time, Omsk was shrouded in an atmosphere of failure inside and outside.

General Kolchak sat by the fire, quietly listening to the quarrel of his generals.The Red Army has already advanced to Omsk. The British and French are obviously unreliable. Facing the powerful offensive of the Red Army, they actually suggested that Kolchak retreat, but they did not tell him where to retreat in this damn winter position up.

But the most unreliable ones are the Japanese. They actually suggested that Kolchak retreat directly to the Far East, where the Japanese stationed eight divisions. They planned to support a puppet regime to ensure their occupation of the Far East.Kolchak, who was desperate in history, did choose the most terrifying path, but it is different now, because of Diao's relationship, Kolchak has an extra option.At least in his heart, there is no need to take millions of Russians across Siberia in this freezing and snowy time, risking death.

"Retreat to the Xinjiang region of your country?" Kolchak hesitated and asked again: "What are your conditions?"

Dian Ao likes to deal with smart people like Kolchak: "In fact, the conditions of our Chairman Wang are much better than those of the Japanese. First of all, we will be responsible for the life, work and employment of all immigrants in your country. At the same time, we will keep your For the army, of course, weapons and ammunition must be handed over first, and then temporarily transformed into agricultural reclamation troops, and the establishment will not be dismantled in principle. As for the golden general, you can continue to use it, we have no idea about it."

Hearing the last sentence, Kolchak couldn't help but wryly smiled. Everyone said that they had no idea about the five hundred tons of gold in their hands, but in fact, everyone was full of ideas and wanted to steal it for themselves. .

But the situation is stronger than others. Just now Dian Ao handed over a personal letter from Wang Zhenyu to Kolchak, and Kolchak, who is proficient in Chinese, was sweating on his forehead after reading it.

The bitter cold wind roared, and the blizzard pierced the body like a saw, bringing indescribable suffering to the rare mass migration in history.Before long, on the boundless Siberian snowfield, frozen people, abandoned sleds, frozen horses, together with dead bodies and never-ending snow all around, covered the roads of Siberia.A completely unimaginable scene appeared on the frozen surface of Lake Baikal: a general's wife was about to give birth on the ice, but there was no one who could go to help, and people walked past her with heavy steps and expressionless faces.The general used his body to block a partition wall, originally to prevent people from seeing his wife giving birth, but he was really frozen as motionless as a wall.The general's wife and the child who was about to be born froze to death together, and after a while, everyone froze to death...

Thinking of the horrible scene described in the letter, Kolchak couldn't help being shaken. He felt that if he really believed in the Japanese, his final fate would definitely not be much better.But he still worriedly asked his last question: "Mr. Diao, my biggest problem now is that I have [-] tons of gold. Once I enter your country, if the big powers intervene, what will your chairman do?"

Dian Ao smiled and said: "Our chairman is not even afraid of the Germans, who else should he be afraid of? And I must tell you that our army is now in a state of war against the Japanese. For us, there is nothing to worry about. I'm worried. Also, please rest assured that we have cooperated with Luxembourgers, Belgians, Britons, and Frenchmen, and we will never betray our partners."